Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five… — Questlove Copy Share Image
Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially… — William James Copy Share Image
Every moment of life is a step toward the grave. [Fr., Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.] — Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon Copy Share Image
Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore. — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
Because that’s the thing about the exact moment when you get somewhere that has required effort: There’s a freeze-frame instant of total… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to ones work. That might lead to more… — Jillian Mayer Copy Share Image
There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale.… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
About three in the morning as we were continuing instant in prayer, the power of God came mightily upon us, insomuch that… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I learned early Jack Kirby favorite movies were the Warner Brothers from the '30s. When you look at Jack Kirby's comic books,… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Somewhere a bicycle bell rings. Somewhere else there's a war on. Somewhere else people turn to shadows and powder in an instant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief. — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have… — Kelly Slater Copy Share Image
We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound. — Elizabeth Ann Seton Copy Share Image
If you're contriving something, if you're making something up, it's not funny. You can tell. It's instant. It has to come from… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man -… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
Realize that if you can instantly create a problem, you can just as quickly and easily create a solution. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest. Evils that take… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The instant people specialize, it's in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon. — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
“It bombarded her with instant pleasure, instant pain and instant arousal, fact and fiction all mixed up and blurred together to create… — Ruth Harris Copy Share Image
“I want instant coffee at the snap of my fingers that gives me more energy than that generated by a million snaps.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
As long as an individual's alive, he will undergo experience in some form or other, and those experiences are stored up instant… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Give fear no hold on you. Keep sinews loose and senses open, ready at every instant to flow with the rush of… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet. — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
In the instant of our first breath, we are infused with the single greatest force in the universe--the power to translate the… — Gregg Braden Copy Share Image
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image